Being an actor is about being a student of human behaviour. Actors spend a great deal of their lives analysing scripts, or, to put it another way, they spend a great deal of their lives trying to work-out just what the hell is going on....
Read MoreThe next work to be done on Noirish Project will be scenes near the end of the film. They aim to show Jimmy's isolation and aimlessness. There will also be no dialogue in these scenes, everything about the character will be shown physically here. Naturally,...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Following on from my piece last week on Idealism, I wanted to define better what I thought idealism actually was, and came up with the following; Idealism is belief in an idea, which goes beyond career, or accolade, or material gain, and it is...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Idealism is an extraordinarily powerful thing. It can inspire us to undertake great works, overcome enormous obstacles, and provide our lives with meaning and direction and energy - we all know the feeling when we do something which we truly believe in. And...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Work on Noirish Project continues apace...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] As many of you probably already know, filming began on Noirish Project recently, and, generally, it went very smoothly. We all had worked together before, and we all wanted to work on this material, which created, despite the early start on a cold...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] That actors are children, is a myth put about by certain theatre directors, the object of which, is to help those directors maintain a position of power - it functions as a Trojan Horse: the comment is a designed to seem like some...
Read MoreProduction on my new feature film, Noirish Project, will continue through March and April. Meanwhile, a free download of short film, Prelude (To Noirish Project), can be got here. We fully rehearsed scenes last month, only for the shooting of thos...
Read MoreCommitment is a tricky thing. At the moment just before we need to commit, our minds suggest all kinds of alternatives as preferable to the thing we are about to commit to. One of the reasons commitment is so hard, is because we are putting...
Read More“Study voice and movement – learn the difference between the beautiful and the attractive. Learn to analyze a script the way a director should and almost none can…Make yourself the expert…Your friends will tell you you are making yourself foolish ...
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